re: Clock Management Woes

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with his microphone on and presumably in full sight of Les Miles

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This is the part of this whole thing that you are leaping to a lot of conclusions. The ref makes the announcements towards the home press box, not the visiting coach, and the mic being on does not mean LM could hear it.

Missing the FG was not due to some coaching mistake, guys, no matter how hard some of you whiny babies want it to be so.

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By his mic being on you can here part of the public address system even though the tv broadcast mutes that down. Even then, the waving of the hands showing that the penalty is declined and how he holds up no fingers for 4th down are pretty obvious. Honestly, it didn't look like he was paying attention to that. It looked like he was in shock when he learned it was 4th down. Not really sure what else he would be doing at that time.

He may have also thought he had an extra timeout. Still can't figure out why he blew it on 2nd down when he had an obvious possible field goal attempt coming up.